December 2011
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“I once slept with a man because he gave me a copy of Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird...”
– Literary Seductions by Allison Hill
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“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before...”
– P. G. Wodehouse (via theparisreview)
Insta-Wodehouse reblog, of course.
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“Throughout Old Men In Love we find ourselves continually coming face to face...”
– Alasdair Gray’s Excellent Last Last Novel is Really Four-in-One by Ranbir Sidhu
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“[Arnold Schwarzenegger] wears no bike helmet, runs red lights, and rips past DO...”
– Boomerang: Travels In the New Third World by Michael Lewis
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Table of Contents | The Norton Reader, 13th ed →
fernham:
coming soon….the new essays (in bold) are awesome!!!
In the Spring of 2010, when I was interning at Norton, I had the pleasure of helping revise the inimitable Norton Reader. I remember when I first read Jennifer Sinor’s fabulous essay “Confluences”. I shared it with everyone I knew. I even Tumbl’d it. I can’t recommend it enough.
I have to admit...
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“We shook hands and I said I liked your reading and he thanked me but didn’t say...”
– Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner. This book was picked by Jonathan Franzen as one of the best books of 2011.
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“I resolved to read as much as I wrote, to slowly but surely fill my shelves with...”
– The Little Room of Danger and Depth by Nigel Featherstone
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“After a while, a young guy sitting in the corner nearest us finally asked what...”
– Keith Gessen, who was arrested for participating in the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, writes about his experience for The New Yorker.
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“… [Ruth Stone]’s been a poet her entire life and she told me that when she was...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert describing Ruth Stone’s particular genius in her wonderful TED Talk on nurturing creativity.
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WatchRuth Stone reads “Seasons.” Her reading is followed by a brief trailer for a documentary film, which features her as its central subject.
Ruth Stone, celebrated American poet, died this past week, at the age of 96.
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Miranda July has opened a store based on her new... →
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“Soon, I was yo-yoing between doubt and hope. I didn’t really think Poem Forest...”
– Marni Berger, in “Wandering in Poem Forest”
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The Mirador in The Millions →
nyrbclassics:
A very thoughtful article about the life and fate of Irène Némirovsky and The Mirador, the fictional memoir of Némirovsky by her daughter Élisabeth Gille, by Emily St. John Mandel in ‘The Millions’.
From Emily’s Review:
Consider the phrase “one imagines”; how many times have we read a memoir in which someone imagines childhood events which they themselves could not...
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“No matter how liberal we consider ourselves about the slippery line between...”
– Sam Allingham reviews Elisabeth Gille’s The Mirador
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The earliest known example of "Black Friday" to... →
laphamsquarterly:
Ben Zimmer has the origins of the phrase “Back Friday” over at the Visual Thesaurus, from an article about worker absenteeism, not shopper frenzy
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“My conclusion: if genre was once a signal to the reader that certain things...”
– The Genre Games by Kim Wright
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“…[A] hippie nods at Vikar’s head and says, “Dig it, man. My favorite movie.”...”
– from Steve Erickson’s Zeroville, one of Emily St. John Mandel’s Staff Picks
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#Oscar Wilde →
